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...simultaneous summer blockbusters and color-coordinated public appearances have inspired skeptics to dismiss the relationship as a publicity stunt and dub the couple TomKat. But if it is a stunt, they're both very committed to it. One thing's for sure: they won't need to send out birth announcements...
DIED. PAUL PENA, 55, critically loved bluesman, almost completely blind since birth, whose quest to immerse himself in Tuvan throat singing--an arcane art from a region in Central Asia that involves producing more than one note at the same time--became the subject of an Academy Award--nominated documentary, Genghis Blues, in 1999; of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis; in San Francisco. Pena, who lived off royalties from his song Jet Airliner, a Top 10 hit for the Steve Miller Band in 1977, happened upon Tuvan music in the 1980s on a shortwave-radio broadcast out of Moscow...
Freshmen who eagerly scoured the pages of their Harvard-issued “Empowering You” student planners may have come across a shocking description or two. The table on contraceptive information listed “messy” as a disadvantage of birth control pills, claimed that male condoms “may be embarrassing,” and said female condoms “may be unattractive...
After reviewing both the new and old tables, Kai T. Wu ’09 commented, “In my personal experience, I’ve never found birth control pills to be very messy, but I do know that this is a waste of paper...
...meter, a device Hubbard invented to measure tension, to help identify painful memories. Then a subject unburdens herself of bad decisions or events, thus ending neuroses and contributing to a feeling of well-being. Some Scientologists claim that after enough auditing they can remember all the way to their birth, and back further into their past lives...